To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.

Jesus didn't live alone. He had Peter, John, and James around him. There were the Twelve and the other disciples. They formed circles of intimacy around Jesus. We too need these circles of intimacy, but it's a discipline.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.

When you're on the bus or subway or in your car, why busy your mind with all the garbage of advertisements? Why fill your mind with television and radio? Somehow you have to decide what your mind will receive. I don't mean you shouldn't ever go to movies or watch television, but control what enters your mind and heart. It's not just a question of pushing bad things out but also a question of holding on to something really good.

[...]when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the other.

Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.